Sometime, Dan gets things wrong in this series of posts and is corrected/advised by users in the comments. Dan always takes the comments on board and suggests ways to incorporate these thoughts and improve the code, or changes the code examples as a result of the feedback. Dan’s lack of ego and willingness to improve things adds more value to these pages – so make sure you read the comments!

Update: This series of blog posts is now available as a video course on Pluralsight.

Jimmy Cuadra has a nice tip on organizing your JavaScript code into simple namespaces here. This article also includes an idea for handling the “this” context when using the JavaScript prototype pattern (by emulating the Prototype.js library’s bind() function). Jimmy suggests the bind() function, while messy looking, may become an ECMAScript standard in v5.

Essential JavaScript Design Patterns – Addy Osmani. This is a fantastic, free, online ebook. Very much respected and very up to date (at the time of writing). This is Volume 1.5. Addy says he is working on Volume 2.

Windows Azure is looking like an excellent choice for hosting web data and services for mobile apps. Much work is being done by Microsoft to support the hosting of services for the iPhone and iPad (as well as Windows Phone and Android). This even includes support for hosting an Apple Push Notification Service provider. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a definitive guide for this – and it is evolving all the time. Anyways, here’s some links to the best resources I’ve been able to find on the web.

Search for this downloadable, sample app on the Apple development web site (at the time of writing it is here). The App demonstrates the use and customization of just about every iOS UI control – buttons, views etc. so is a great reference.

The Next Generation of Digital Books. This company is currently in beta with an app that will enable people to create beautiful, interactive books and magazines on mobile platforms – initially on iOS. The first product – Al Gore’s “Our Choice” book looks incredible.